Veronica Henry, born in 1963, is a British novelist, television scriptwriter and journalist, and a fixture of the Sunday Times bestseller lists. The commercial record is striking: more than 2.5 million copies sold worldwide, with her books published in 25 languages across 30 territories. This is popular fiction operating at serious scale.
The recognition is there too. In 2014 her novel A Night on the Orient Express won the Romantic Novelists’ Association’s Romantic Novel of the Year Award, the flagship prize for the genre in Britain. Add a working background in television scriptwriting, and you have a novelist who understands structure, dialogue and the craft of making readers care quickly.